Karl Twesten 1862 (IZ 38-193 H Scherenberg)

Karl Twesten (April 22, 1820 in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...

– October 14, 1870 in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) was a German politician and author.

Biography

He was the son of German theologian

August Detlev Christian Twesten August Detlev Christian Twesten (born in Glückstadt, April 11, 1789; died in Berlin, January 8, 1876) was a Lutheran theologian of Germany. Biography He studied at the University of Kiel, and for a period of time, worked as a gymnasium teacher in ...

. He became connected with the judicial service, and was one of the founders of the progressive party, which in 1861 involved him in a duel with Gen.

Edwin von Manteuffel Edwin Karl Rochus Freiherr von Manteuffel (24 February 180917 June 1885) was a Prussian ''Generalfeldmarschall'' noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian War, and the first Imperial Lieutenant (german: Reichsstatthalter) of Alsace–Lorra ...

, in which he lost his right arm. In the same year, he was elected to the Prussian chamber of deputies (german: Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus), and he was one of the founders of the National Liberal Party and an early member of the North German Reichstag (german: Reichstag des Norddeutscher Bundes). Persecuted for advocating the fullest parliamentary freedom, he retired in 1868 after being fined.

Works

* ''Schiller in seinem Verhältniss zur Wissenschaft'' ("

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

in his relationship to knowledge"; Berlin, 1863). * '' Machiavelli'' (1868) * ''Die religiösen, politischen und socialen Ideen der asiatischen Culturvölker und der Aegypter in ihrer historischen Entwickelung'', posthumous ("The religious, political and social ideas of the Asiatic cultures and the Egyptions in their historical development"; edited by

Moritz Lazarus Moritz Lazarus (15 September 1824 – 13 April 1903), born at Filehne, in the Grand Duchy of Posen, was a German-Jewish philosopher, psychologist, and a vocal opponent of the antisemitism of his time. Life and education He was born at ...

, 1873).

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* 1820 births 1870 deaths 19th-century German judges National Liberal Party (Germany) politicians German male writers Jurists from Kiel Politicians from Kiel {{Germany-politician-stub